MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Latvia will play Lithuania for fifth place at the Basketball World Cup. And Slovenia and Italy couldn't recover one day after seeing their hopes of making the tournament semifinals fall short.
Latvia earned its trip to that game by topping Italy 87-82 on Thursday in the start of the consolation playoffs. Lithuania then beat Slovenia 100-84 in the night's second game.
Slovenia and Italy both lost Wednesday in the quarterfinals; Canada topped Slovenia and the U.S. rolled past Italy.Lithuania jumped out to a 12-point lead after one quarter and had little trouble topping Luka Doncic and Slovenia .
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